Thaïs (saint)
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St. Thaïs, of fourth-century Roman Alexandria and of the Egyptian desert, was a repentant courtesan.
Sculpture of Saint Thaïs in the Église Saint-Boniface, Ixelles, Belgium
St. Thaïs in the Golden Legend (1497).
Mary Garden performs in the Massenet opera Thaïs.
Thaïs
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Thaïs was a Greek hetaira who accompanied Alexander the Great on his military campaigns. Likely from Athens, she is most famous for having instigated the burning of Persepolis, the capital city of the
Thaïs (saint)
…modern theory that suggests she is a legend deriving from "probably only a moral tale invented for edification." The saint shares her name with another Thaïs of wide notoriety in the Hellenistic world, many hundreds of years before. Of Ancient Athens, she had traveled to Persia with the campaign of Alexander…
Thaïs of Athens with Torch (1781) by Joshua Reynolds
Thaïs leading the destruction of the palace of Persepolis, as imagined in Thaïs by Georges-Antoine Rochegrosse, 1890.
Thaïs leads Alexander to start the fire, Ludovico Carracci, c. 1592
Lodovico Carracci, Alexander and Thaïs